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Andi and Lise RAVE about the book Dread Nation by author Justina Ireland, which is billed as YA but really, EVERYBODY should read it. It\u2019s an amazingly evocative tale of American race relations set against the backdrop of the Civil War but with a twist\u2014zombies. Or, in the parlance of the times, \u201cshamblers.\u201d

From the book description:

Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville\u2014derailing the War Between the States and changing America forever. In this new nation, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Native and Negro Reeducation Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead. But there are also opportunities\u2014and Jane is studying to become an Attendant, trained in both weaponry and etiquette to protect the well-to-do. It\u2019s a chance for a better life for Negro girls like Jane. After all, not even being the daughter of a wealthy white Southern woman could save her from society\u2019s expectations.

The book deals with race, racial hierarchies as defined by skin color, and how a zombie apocalypse didn\u2019t re-align race relations, but rather simply grafted them onto a new backdrop. The protagonist (Jane) is amazing and the story is well-crafted and you\u2019re swept up in it immediately. READ THIS BOOK.

Justina Ireland\u2019s website

Dread Nation is published by Balzar + Bray (imprint of HarperCollins)

Here\u2019s the Amazon link

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